Bug#989912: libregexp-pattern-license-perl: No deterministic results are provided

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Walter Lozano (2021-06-22 18:56:05)
> Thank you for your detailed explanation. I cannot completely follow 
> you but I can follow the high level idea. I was completely sure that 
> the issue was related to how license versioning was handled, but my 
> limited experience in perl and in these particular modules make it 
> impossible for me to go deeper. So I establish a personal goal of at 
> least make a bug report which were really useful for you and provide a 
> basement for your investigation, mainly by pointing to what was more 
> evident for me, the non deterministic output.

I suspect that it is not so much your lack of experience that make the 
code difficult to follow, but to a larger degree the odd evolution of 
Licensecheck from a single-file quick hack and my no doubt 
unconventional programming style (I never formally studied programming, 
just fumbled with Perl on my own for 20+ years).


> I'm really happy that this report was helpful.

Certainly was.  Hope you find interest in doing more of that - to 
Licensecheck or to other projects :-)

I notice your Collabora email, and hope you get lots of joyful 
challenges there.


 - Jonas

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